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California98Civic · 04-14-2018, 04:42 PM

More progress with the rims, and pics:

Plastidipping the blanks:

Foil taping in the blanks

Front view

Gratuitous car pic

And I began my transmission project, which is to learn to rebuild and experiment with fitting a '92 VX FD I bought years ago to mod my '98 DX transmision. All I got done today was the start of the housing degreasing:

IDK why the pics are sometime misoriented!

04-14-2018, 04:42 PM	#344 (permalink)
California98Civic Cyborg ECU Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Coastal Southern California Posts: 6,299 Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe Team Honda 90 day: 66.42 mpg (US) Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike 90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US) Thanks: 2,373 Thanked 2,174 Times in 1,470 Posts	Today's update: rims and transmission More progress with the rims, and pics: Plastidipping the blanks: Foil taping in the blanks Front view Gratuitous car pic And I began my transmission project, which is to learn to rebuild and experiment with fitting a '92 VX FD I bought years ago to mod my '98 DX transmision. All I got done today was the start of the housing degreasing: IDK why the pics are sometime misoriented! Attached Thumbnails __________________ See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.